[iachella]

Again, 116s have electronic tachs. I just hooked up my wire and it worked. 116 water pumps came with a tach block off plate anyway.

So Biba - you don't have to worry about anything they are saying. With an Alfetta, it is all moot. I got my TS for about $1200, put it up on a stand, checked leakdown, put a new water pump for good measure ($100 from Jon Norman as a late Spider water pump, same as the TS) and dropped it in.

Pushed the connector though the firewall at the air conditioning holes, mounted the 4 relay block above that. Had an aluminum plate made by a friend to mount both coils side by side. Got new plug wires - used 4 from my old Alfetta engine and bought one of those cut-your-own sets for a V8 ($30) for the other 4. I did have to source an extra long coil wire since I mounted both coils near the passanger inner fender under the windsheild. I bought a 1' long silicone tube ($20) of 1 3/4" (=45mm dia) and cut 4 pieces for some new intake runners. Cone air filter ($40), MSD fuel pump ($95), a few feet of higher pressure fuel line. I'd estimate $1600 total in engine and parts.

That's about it. So when people start saying you need to spend all this money on "conversion parts", don't worry about it. Alfettas are made for this engine. It's the same chassis so all hardware matches - engine mounts, tail shaft, drive shaft, flywheel, exhaust manifolds. Ancillary electrics are the same too - radiator fan, tach, etc. A couple of minor adaptation to be made - radiator hose routing, higher output fuel pump, cone air filter (since the air box won't fit anywhere in the Alfetta engine bay).

I guess we can actually say for an Alfetta, it's not so much a conversion, but an upgrade.